All Building Design articles in 1 September 2006
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Review
Venice is a window to the world
Just ahead of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Murray looks back at the event’s history and explains why it remains so important today
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Opinion
Weather the storm
So, Prescott should be embarrassed because the £60,000 cedar-clad house suffered “damage” by fading to grey?
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Opinion
Silver service
I was amazed by last week’s front page article “Prescott’s £60k house fades to grey”, which shows both bias and a tendency to score cheap points.
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Opinion
Stirling retort
I see you have used the nomination of the Welsh Assembly Building as yet another opportunity to take a swipe at Wales.
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News
This year’s remodel
Oxfordshire practice Spratley Architects has completed the remodelling of this former 1970s office building at Milton Park in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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News
Regulations rejected
Exclusive survey: two in three architects believe building control damages design quality
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Opinion
Political vacuum
Having returned from holiday, I have just read reports on the number of votes Peter Phillips received in the RIBA presidential election.
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News
Mix and match
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has submitted a planning application to the London Borough of Bexley for this mixed-use scheme on the high street at Welling in Kent.
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Opinion
The tale of the three little prigs
Every little brick in the house had its own little blog on MySpace, with all the other little bricks listed as ‘friends’
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News
Park Royal warns off housebuilders
The managers of London’s largest industrial park have pledged to protect their land from the encroaching demands of housebuilders.
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Building Study
Holy order
St George’s Bloomsbury has suffered radical alterations through the ages, but now it has been painstakingly returned to Hawksmoor’s original vision.
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News
Planning without a handicap
Planning has been granted for a private house overlooking the RAC Club’s golf course, designed by Eldridge Smerin.
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Opinion
Heritage site has great modern hope
I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.
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News
Experts pick their Stirling favourites
This week, we asked experts across the construction industry who they thought should win:
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News
EP super-panel is ticket for work
Big name firms dominate English Partnerships’ four-year framework deal, amid claims of lack of diversity
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News
Pushing the envelope
Work has begun on Ron Arad Associates’ Design Museum in the Holon, close to Tel Aviv in Israel.